<div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">[apologies for cross-posting]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Sunbelt 2024 - INSNA Sunbelt Social Networks Conference</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Conference Website: <a href="https://sunbelt2024.com/">https://sunbelt2024.com/</a><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Call for Submissions – Negative Ties and Signed Graphs</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">This organized session focuses on the co-existence of positive and negative ties in networks across different domains and the need to study positive and negative ties together in order to better understand network dynamics, as well as processes and outcomes within these networks. We encourage a wide range of submissions.</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">We invite anyone with an interest in the topic to submit their work to an organized session of the Sunbelt 2024 conference, which is taking place in Edinburgh, Scotland from <b>June 24-30th, 2024</b> and <b>online on June 25th</b>.<br><br>Please submit your work for this conference within the submission window (Deadline: February 4, 2024) using the organized session labeled:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">“Negative Ties and Signed Graphs”</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Submission Link: </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><a href="https://www.conftool.pro/sunbelt2024/">https://www.conftool.pro/sunbelt2024/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Session organizers:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 45pt;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:9.98667px;color:black">       </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Filip Agneessens (Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 45pt;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:9.98667px;color:black">      </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Samin Aref (Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto) </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 45pt;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:9.98667px;color:black">      </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Nicholas Harrigan (Department of Sociology, Macquarie University)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 45pt;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:9.98667px;color:black">      </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Eva Jaspers (Department of Sociology, Utrecht University)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 45pt;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:9.98667px;color:black">      </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Emmanuel Kyeremeh (Department of Geography & Environmental Studies, Toronto Metropolitan University)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 45pt;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:9.98667px;color:black">       </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Giuseppe (Joe) Labianca (University of Massachusetts Amherst; and Exeter Business School, University of Exeter)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 45pt;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:9.98667px;color:black">       </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Zachary Neal (Psychology Department, Michigan State University)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">We encourage a wide range of submissions.</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Example works include (but are not limited to): Methods and measures pertaining to signed networks (in social, economic, political, biological, financial, informational, or physical contexts); modeling and analysis of negative ties; understanding how structural balance affects volatility in financial markets; explaining the inner workings of political and legal bodies such as legislatures or courts; understanding how threats within a network create needs for allies, particularly in international relations; exploring how difficult ties affect health outcomes; examining where bullying emerges in schools or organizations; exploring how positive and negative emotion are structured within our cognitive semantic networks; how perceptions of negative ties poses unique challenges in organizational research; examining how relational ambivalence affects relational trajectories; and how subgroup fault lines affect intra- and inter-group conflict.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">We look forward to your participation!</span></p></div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14.2667px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,32,78);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Samin Aref, Ph.D.</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14.2667px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><br></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14.2667px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">University of Toronto<br></span><span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:11.4133px;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><a href="https://saref.github.io/" target="_blank">saref.github.io</a></span></p></div></div></div></div>